Table 1:
Mean household characteristics and relative frequency of the roles of the deceased in household food provisioning, by recent household mortality experience
| Variable | HIV death | Non-HIV death | No death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household characteristics | |||
| Household size | 5.0 (3.2)a | 5.5 (2.9)a | 4.5 (2.4)a |
| SES score: 2003 | −0.24 (2.38)a | 1.09 (2.16)b | 0.04 (2.20)a |
| SES score: 2005 | −0.24 (2.17)a | 0.91 (2.12)b | 0.14 (1.88)a |
| Mortality variables | |||
| Time since death (months) | 18.5 (6.6)a | 18.9 (5.2)a | – |
| Total deaths over sample period | 1.7 (1.0)a | 1.5 (0.6)a | – |
| Role of the deceased in food provisioning | |||
| Contributed income | 59.6% | 70.8% | – |
| Tended a food garden and/ or field | 59.6% | 64.6% | – |
| Collected natural resources | 51.9% | 46.2% | – |
Note: Standard deviation in brackets. Values which do not share a common superscript letter within a row are significantly different (p < 0.05) and highlighted in bold.